Re: init returns nil or raises exception?
Re: init returns nil or raises exception?
- Subject: Re: init returns nil or raises exception?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:04:34 -0700
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Remco Poelstra <email@hidden> wrote:
> While still in the process of cleaning up my code, I read in the documentation of NSObject that -init should return nil if it fails to initialize. But a paragraph lower it's stated that -init should always return a functional instance or raise an exception. Isn't that in conflict with the allowance of returning nil?
File a documentation bug. I would imagine the paragraph about the
exception is saying that an exception must be raised rather than
returning a half-constructed instance of the object.
--Kyle Sluder
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